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The border crossing by 34 Kurds from Iraq to Turkey on Monday might not seem much of an event, in a region plagued for decades by a conflict which has cost tens of thousands of lives.
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KENYA is the focus of attention of the football world as the coveted solid-gold Fifa World Cup trophy finally landed in the country yesterday. The trophy - the...
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Direct talks between arch foes, Israel and Iran, in 30 years, were held under the auspices of an initiative of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
According to...
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Well, I wanted submitting a newslink only, but a topic of computing addiction is really a rising issue in the USA.
As a next new centre to open in New York in a few...
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I just came back from a journey abroad. My travels took me to two continents. But it was one question that followed me all through: what happened to America?
Those...
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Calling all citizens young and old: Your country needs you and your children to be Swine Flu vaccine guinea pigs.
The race is on: The government and vaccine makers...
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The Plague was on her way to Baghdad when she came across an old man. He asked, “Where are you going”? The Plague answered, “To Baghdad to kill 10,000...
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And here is a new M. Kerjman publication “The X-Challenge: Realm of Senses”.
If even at the end it brings about just some solutions to tackling a pig flue and...
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This post is especially directed towards those who are in denial about the terror potential of Islam and continue to defend Muslims. It is true that there are numerous...
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The Gaza Strip is now the largest concentration camp in the world. The situation grows steadily more insufferable for the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there....
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I was a big fan of Oswald Spengler. I thought The Decline of the West was one of the most prescient books ever written. Everything does come and go in cycles. You can...
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The world has become an ugly, nasty place. I don’t think there is a single country that has been able to truly escape the wrath of the greed, violence,...
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Liberty rules!?!
One more proficient in social engineering than your author is, could suggest, by surely free and independent nations, a notion of a common culture...
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We have all heard of some pretty silly laws. Here are twenty-five of the craziest I have ever heard of. (With the exception of #25, I think it is an unwritten law...
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A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:
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When your apartment gets to this point, I wonder if you even bother shitting in the toilet, or anywhere near the bathroom, for that matter. The moment you feel a dump...
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The populations of the world’s common birds are declining as a result of continued habitat loss, a global assessment has warned.
The survey by BirdLife...
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For centuries, restaurants have been making the same fiscal error time and time again: serving delicious food at reasonable prices.
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Be a bit of a pain if it did, wouldn’t it? And the most frustrating thing is that we won’t know for sure either way until the European laboratory for...
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Two men have been arrested for people smuggling after 64 Kurds were found in the back of a lorry in Styria.
Graz police said today (Weds) two men, an Austrian and a...
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It is acceptable to be opposed to Turkish acceptance into the European Union if objections are made on legitimate grounds of, say, criticism of Turkey’s...
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It is called the “trigger line”, a 300-mile long swathe of disputed territory in northern Iraq where Arab and Kurdish soldiers confront each other, and...
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Turkey is an enviable nation. Not only is it rich in history, home to one of the world’s most incredible city, and bestowed with an abundance of natural beauty....
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Turkey has had a tenuous relationship with Kurds for decades. Although Moustafa Kamel deserves a lot of credit for moving Turkey onto the path of democracy and...
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Although relations seem to be improving between Turkey and the Kurds, relations between Arabs and Kurds in Iraq is soring . Previously Kurdish parties had dominated...
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“On 25 February 2008, the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Farzad Kamangar to death on charges of “endangering national security” and...
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In a previous piece of mine, I suggested that that there is an apparent nascent political polarity in the Middle East getting over time more connected to two poles in...
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Many of us think that the first war between the two countries was the first gulf war. And that is incorrect information. The history goes back even before the Persian...
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Bush’s excursion in Iraq has been a complete mess from the very start and this has been conceded in virtually every quarter (except of course, the Bush...
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A suicide bomber having made his way through several layers of fortified security struck at the very institution that is expected to usher democracy in a nation yet to...
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Iraq faced the deadliest day when Sunnis murdered at least 160 people injuring 250 in a sectarian violence yesterday through well-planned car bombing and mortar attacks...
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